March Gardening Tips

Gardening tips during March

• March Gardening Tips. The beginning of spring is among us. Beautiful days, cool nights, and wind especially in the southwest (it can’t always be perfect).
• You should be able to plant just about anything including bulbs, trees, shrubs, and bedding plants. Be careful with tomato plants because the weather can be a bit tricky during this month.
• If you do plant frost-tender plants during the March gardening season, be prepared to cover them in the event of a late frost.
• In the Southwest area or lower elevations of the Southwest, we usually get a cold snap followed by some pretty warm days during March. Try using “Wall-o-waters” for your tomato plants to help protect them from temps down to 15 degrees f. Ask for them at your local Nursery or Greenhouse retail store.
• Some flowering shrubs, trees, and vines you may want to consider are wisteria, Idaho locust, Indian Hawthorne, Carolina jessamine, cross-vine, roses, flowering cherry, crape myrtle, Texas sage, and trumpet vine to name a few.
• Fruit trees should be abundant at this time of year and can be planted as late as May without undue stress. Varieties that we carry are cherry, apple, plum, apricot, pear, peach, nectarine, pecan, almond, fig, loquat, grapes, raspberries, blackberries, and more.
• Bedding plant selection should be increasing and usually include pansies, petunia, viola, stock, snapdragon, dianthus, herbs, alyssum, marigold, and poppies, to name a few.
• Now is the time to feed your cool season lawn with 16-8-8, containing iron, zinc, and sulfur, if it has been more than 4-6 weeks since you last fed your lawn. Feed your Bermuda or other warm-season grass at the end of March with the same product mentioned above.
• If you had problems with weeds last year you may want to consider using a pre-emergent herbicide in early March. This comes in liquid or granule form and will prevent weed seeds from germinating if applied correctly. This pre-emergent can be used in rock, or graveled areas as well, without injury to existing landscape trees, shrubs, and plants. Need to know what your USDA plant hardiness zone is? Click here to look it up now. The page will open up in a new window.

March Garden Tips

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